Home Care Services

Personal Care

Our employees are trained and experienced in a wide range of personal care activities, and are able to provide ongoing support when daily tasks like showering, selection of clothes, dressing and grooming become too difficult to manage alone. We can also help with toileting, personal hygiene and incontinence management, and with general mobility and transfers.

Communication Aids Assistance

mecwacare understands that communication is important to our clients. Our staff can provide assistance with fitting sensory communication aids, checking hearing aid batteries, using the telephone and cleaning spectacles.

Home Help

mecwacare can provide support with domestic duties such as dusting, vacuuming, cleaning kitchens or bathrooms, washing, ironing, changing bed sheets and general tidying up. We can help with grocery shopping, meal preparation, bill paying, sending and collecting of mail and packages, putting out and bringing in rubbish and recycling bins, and with regular telephone check-ups as part of our home-calling service.

Meals

We can help with grocery shopping and meal preparation, including assistance with special dietary requirements and checking expiry dates of foodstuffs.

Delivered Meals

mecwacare can deliver hot, nutritious balanced meals to your door 5 days a week in some areas.

Companionship

mecwacare can provide companionship tailored around your personal needs and wishes to help you remain as connected and independent as possible. We can assist you when attending medical or social appointments, help with your shopping, paperwork and correspondence, support you when taking a walk or with assisted exercise, or even simply provide company and conversation.

Home and Garden Maintenance

We can help with mowing, weeding and planting, garden waste removal, advice on potential home-safety risks, ensuring the home and garden have an adequate level of security, access to technical advice on major home modifications, changing smoke-detector batteries and light bulbs, and minor modifications to the home such as bath rails and shower hoses.

Transport and Social Inclusion

mecwacare can provide transport and social inclusion assistance for clients by coordinating transport to and from social outings, shops, medical practitioners and community events. We can also organise support and access to programs and therapies for specific behaviours or conditions.

mecwacare's Social Support holiday program offers subsidised trips for clients and their carers to different Victorian destinations each year. The trips give clients of varying ages and abilities an affordable holiday while maintaining the level of daily care they require, with 24-hour support from qualified and experienced staff.

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About us

mecwacare is a major provider of residential, nursing and support services for the frail aged, disadvantaged and people with special needs and disabilities. We operate through a highly-integrated service network of over 1,700 employees and 350 volunteers, caring for over 13,000 people each year across greater Melbourne and regional Victoria.

mecwacare's primary objective is to enhance the quality of life of people in need of care, especially the elderly, through the delivery of innovative, responsive and fully-evaluated services offered in residential settings, community facilities and clients' homes. mecwacare acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Elders in each of the Communities in which we work.